“True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.” MindArtMadeReligiousArt IsNobleContemplation Author:Michelangelo
“The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.” MindSoulPerfectPerfectionStriveStrifeEndeavour Author:Michelangelo
“Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.” IfsShouldMindHas BeensYouthPaintingStressRuinsLabourDistressSculptureGood Faith Author:Michelangelo
“Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.” MindWarSpiritualFormReligiousMalesThemeReligious FaithBattlefieldsPaganSixteenPolarity Author:Michelangelo
“I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.” MindVision Author:Michelangelo
“The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.” MindDoeHandsArtistWhiteMassBlockConceptionPenetrateMarbleObedient Author:Michelangelo
“You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses any talent or displays any dexterity of mind, who can do or say something more appropriately than the rest of the world, I am compelled to fall in love with him; and then I give myself up to him so entirely that I am no longer my own property, but wholly his.” KnowsMenWorldGivingMindPersonsFallCan DoBornMy OwnTalentPropertyFalling In LoveDisplayCompelledDexterity Author:Michelangelo
